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Tuesday, August 30, 2016

I.
Study the following information carefully to answer the given questions.

Eight friends Arun, Bimal, Isha, Lily,
Manu, Ram, Victoria and Lucas are sitting around a circular table facing the
centre. All of them have a different profession Teacher, Actor, Writer, Singer,
Musician, Lawyer, DANCER and Poet but not necessarily in the same order.

Ram is third to the right of Lily,
who was not DANCER and Poet. The one who was Lawyer is an immediate neighbour
of Victoria and Isha. The one who was DANCER is second to the left of Ram, who
was Singer. The one who was Poet is opposite to Ram. Lucas is not an immediate
neighbour of either Isha or Ram but is third to the right of Bimal. The persons
who were lawyer and Writer sit opposite to each other. Lucas was an Actor. The
one who was DANCER sits third to the left of the Writer. The one who was Teacher
and the one who was Poet are immediate neighbours. Arun was not Teacher. Manu
is second to the right of Arun, who is an immediate neighbour of Ram and Lucas.

1. Which of the
following is the profession of Bimal?

A)
Actor

B)
Musician

C)
DANCER

D)
Doctor

E)
None of these

2 Who among the
following is DANCER?

A)
Isha

B)
Victoria

C)
Lucas

D)
Either Isha or Victoria

E)
None of these

3. If Victoria is third
to the right of Manu then who among the following is immediate left of Bimal?

A)
Ram

B)
Manu

C)
Isha

D)
Victoria

E)
None of these

4. Which of the
following statement is true?

A)
Bimal – Lawyer

B)
Manu – Singer

C)
Arun – Actor

D)
Lily – Lawyer

E)
None of these

5. Who sits between Musician
and Writer?

A)
Singer

B)
Actor

C)
Lawyer

D)
Poet

E)
None of these

II.
Study the following information carefully to answer the given questions.

There are 7 persons P, Q, R, S,
T, U and V are sitting in a row facing north. Each of them has a different
profession – MD, Administrator, Teacher, Writer, Athlete , Racer and CA but not
necessarily in the same order.

T is not a Racer but sits after
the person who immediately follows U. Q is a teacher. The one who is an MD sits
second from the right end. The Administrator sits on the immediate left of the Racer.
P sits on the immediate right of V and on the immediate left of R. U is fifth
from the left end of the row and he is CA. The Athlete is third from the left
end.

I.
Study the following information carefully to answer the given questions (1-5):-

There are seven friends namely A,
B, C, D, E, F and G each of them aspire to become something.

Each of them likes different colors
viz. Grey, Purple, Indigo, Marron, White, Magenta and Orange but not
necessarily in the same order.

Each of them wants to become Judge,
Nurse, Mechanic, Artist, Swimmer, Footballer and Athlete but not necessarily in
the same order.

E likes marron color and wants to
become a Nurse.

C likes purple color and wants to
become an Athlete.

G doesn’t like magenta color and
doesn’t want to become a Mechanic.

The person who likes white color,
wants to become an Artist while the person who wants to be a Swimmer, likes Grey
color.

A likes orange color but F
doesn’t like Indigo or magenta color and he doesn’t want to become an Artist.

D wants to become a Judge. B
doesn’t want to become a Mechanic or a footballer.

1. Who does want to
become a footballer?

1.
G

2.
C

3.
F

4.
A

5.
B

2. Who among the
following likes white color?

1.
G

2.
C

3.
F

4.
A

5.
B

3. The person who wants
to become a judge likes which color?

1.
White

2.
Indigo

3.
Magenta

4.
Grey

5.
Orange

4. F wants to become
a/an ________

1.
Artist

2.
Nurse

3.
Judge

4.
Swimmer

5.
Mechanic

5. Which of the
following combinations of Person – Color – Profession is correct?

1.
D – Grey – Judge

2.
F – Grey – Swimmer

3.
A – White – Athlete

4.
B – Indigo – Artist

5.
G – White – Artist

II.
Study the following information carefully to answer the questions (6-10) given
below

Seven candidates Harry, Saam, Nishant,
sheena, Nikki, Khushi and Suman are to be interviewed for selection as Trainee
officers by different panels 1 to 7 for different banks Indian Bank, CANARA
BANK, Bank of Baroda, YES BANK, Uco bank, SIDBI and UNION BANK not necessarily
in the same order.

Nishant is interviewed by panel 4
for Indian Bank. Saam is interviewed by panel 3 but not for YES BANK or Bank of
Baroda. Harry is interviewed for CANARA BANK but not by panel 1 or 2. Nikki is
interviewed by panel 6 for Uco bank Bank. Panel 7 conducts the interview for SIDBI.
Sheena is interviewed by panel 1 but not for Bank of Baroda. Panel 2 does not
interview Khushi.

1. RAIL
PASSENGERS TO GET INSURANCE COVER WORTH RS 10 LACS AT A PREMIUM OF ONLY 92
PAISE

i. Railways has started insurance cover
of up to Rs10 lakh while booking a train ticket online by paying less than one
rupee cost.

ii. Indian Railways subsidiary IRCTC
has assigned the task to three private firms are Shriram General Insurance,
ICICI Lombard General Insurance and Royal Sundaram General Insurance.

2. INDIA
RANKED AT 77TH, PAKISTAN AT 72ND ND AND BANGLADESH AT 5TH
IN WORLD RISK REPORT 2016

i. The World Risk Report 2016 published
by the UNU Institute for Environment and Human Security released a list after doing analysis of the
role that infrastructure plays in shaping a country’s disaster risk.

ii. The list is topped by Island state
of Vanuatu.

iii. India has been ranked at 77th
place, Pakistan ranked at 72nd, Bangladesh at 5th.

3.
PAKISTAN TO HOST 19TH SAARC SUMMIT ON NOV. 9 & 10 THIS YEAR

i. Pakistan will host the 19th SAARC
Summit on November 9 and 10 this year.

ii. The SAARC Summit Cell is headed by
Ambassador Amjad Sial.

iii. SAARC is an organization of eight
countries located in the South Asia and it stands for the South Asian
Association for Regional Corporation.

4.
BENGALURU TO HOST THE PRAVASI BHARATIYA DIVAS 2017

i. IT capital of the country,
Bengaluru, will host the 2017 Bharatiya Pravasi Divas.

ii. It is scheduled to take place on
February 7, 8 and 9 of 2017.

iii. Pravasi Bharatiya Divas is
celebrated in India on 9 January each year to mark the contribution of the
overseas Indian community to the development of India.

5.
FINANCE MINISTRY SET UP A COMMITTEE FOR DIGITALIZING INCENTIVE PAYMENTS

i. The Finance Minister Arun Jaitley
has set up a committee to consider incentive schemes for promoting
digitalization.

ii. The schemes are aimed to promote
such as cash back schemes and tax rebates for promoting card and digital
payments in a step towards discouraging cash transactions.

iii. The committee will be headed by
former Finance Secretary Ratan P Watal

6. WORLD
BANK SANCTIONS RS 980 CR FOR BRAHMAPUTRA DREDGING

i. The World Bank has announced a
funding of Rs 980 crore to dredge the Brahmaputra as an initiative to develop
waterways to Bangladesh.

ii.It will promote the trade between
the Bangladesh and other South East Asian countries

iii. The World Bank is an international
financial institution that provides loans to developing countries for capital
programs.

7. BCCI
SUBMITS COMPLIANCE REPORT TO LODHA PANEL

i. The BCCI submitted the first
Compliance Report to the Supreme Court-appointed Justice RM Lodha Panel in
regards to the implementation of reforms as per the apex court verdict.

ii. The BCCI has already filed a Review
Petition with the Supreme Court seeking recusal of CJI TS Thakur from the case.